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Take an in-depth look at this unique and challenging material. This Weekend Course will consider the achievements of the greatest masters of glass and innovative contemporary artists. Glass is one of the oldest man-made materials and certainly the most mysterious. Smooth and hard, it is also fragile, and can be transparent or brilliantly colourful and opaque.
Read moreJustine Hopkins read English and drama at Bristol University, then took an Art History MA at the Courtauld Institute and a PhD at Birkbeck College. Since then she has worked as a writer and freelance lecturer for a wide variety of institutions, is a registered lecturer for NADFAS and a regular contributor to the V&A programmes.
I have taken many Weekend Courses at the V&A and I come feeling inspired, stimulated by the facts, and wishing to know even more. 2015/16 course student
Glass is one of the oldest man-made materials and certainly the most mysterious. Neither solid, liquid nor gas, neither crystal nor stone, it exists in a state of its own; smooth and hard, it is also fragile, fracturing to produce cutting edges of lethal sharpness. Glass can be colourless, transparent, brilliantly colourful or opaque depending on the precise balance of its chemical constituents; to be shaped it must be heated and reheated to extreme temperatures and as it cools it may shatter explosively without stringent precautions. Above all, worked glass is unpredictable: no two pieces will ever be identical, and what you think you placed in the kiln will rarely if ever come out exactly as you expected and planned. Glass is dangerous, difficult and glamorous; a combination which has fascinated craftsmen and artists, chemists and collectors throughout history.
£288 full price, £260 over 60s, £195 concessions
(concessions are available for ES40 holders and registered disabled people)
Delve deeper into the subjects you love and enjoy thought-provoking lectures in a group who share your passion. Refreshments served on arrival each day.
21 April 2018 - 22 April 2018
£195.00 - £288.00
Call to book +44 (0)20 7942 2000
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
Open 10.00 - 13.00, Monday to Sunday (closed 24-26 December)
Become a Member and enjoy free access to exhibitions, previews, priority booking, freshly curated content and much more.